Meet your teacher, Federica Fragapane. She talks about her career so far and how she started designing data visualizations. She also shares her views on design and her approach. Begin with a brief introduction to the process of visually translating contents, and learn to analyze the role of reader perception. Then, your teacher proposes a series of questions to help approach any new project, including the role of written and visual words, before showing you how to tell stories with data. Explore some case studies and the use of complex visual metaphors. Now it’s time to start developing your narratives. Select the topic and the story you want to tell, create the dataset with Google Sheets, and sketch the macrostructure of the story. Next, it’s time to work with RAWGraphs and Illustrator. Design the different parts of your piece, focusing on the details, texts, legends, and finishing touches. To bring the course to a close, take a look at the different devices you can use to share your work.
